War Storyteller Pillows

'We learned about Vietnam in school today, Grandpa -- shame on you!'

"Gosh, that is a very large piece of schrapnel, grandad."

"I guess I was a good shot, because I took down 50 Nazis...all by myself. That's how I got my silver star. Honestly, I don't consider myself a hero. I consider myself lucky."

Lawrence of Arabia

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

"The knights of the round accent table"

'How do you like my fantasy weekend so far?'

"Remember when we had to get along on twenty-one dollars a month!"

"I had a great weekend... My Grandpa talked about the war again and my Dad about his most daring facebook comments!"

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

Rocket Ark

"Did you call for a Medic?"

Harry Chauvel & T. E. Lawrence

A series of cameras go through a war zone.

'Oh, just my old war injury acting up.'

War and Peace GIF

Defence Cuts: 'This is getting serious Sergeant, bring up the re-enforcements!'

"Henry took a shower yesterday right next to Winthrop Rockefeller."

'It's been five years since leaving Iraq and I'm still getting the sand out my ears.'

ISIS needle in a haystack.

European Arms Proliferation - 1860's

Little Known Historical Fact: After regaining consciousness at the last minute, Davey Crockett's coonskin cap went on to become the Alamo's only survivor.

'Literary agency' "About your idea for a book on NATO's role in Kosovo? Russian author got there first"

"Most of the time, war...it makes no sense. A lot of times, we'd hear artillery whistling over our heads. But really, you can't move. You just wait...and wait...until it hits...and hope it isn't hitting you."

"Here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night, Matthew Arnold, Fox News, Channel Five."

'Peace' in our time.

The press under fire

'They want the medals back. Apparently, you used a Vicks inhaler before going over the top in 1916.'

'War, drought, famine, diseases: Boy I love the news...'

The origin of 'Rorke's drift' has long been a subject of intense speculation.

'Honey, please don't ask Grandaddy about the war.'

"The Balkans. This is where I came in."